APUS American Pageant MC Chapter 23&24-Unit 5
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| 704747288 | At the conclusion of the civil war, General Ulysses S. Grant | accepted gifts of houses and money from citizens | |
| 704747289 | in the presidential election of 1868, ulysses s. grant | owed his victory to the cotes of former slaves | |
| 704747290 | As a result of the civil war, | waste, extravagance, speculation, and graft reduced the moral stature of the republic | |
| 704747291 | in the late nineteenth century, thos political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody dhirt" were reminding voters | of the "treason" of the Confederate Democrats during the civil war | |
| 704747292 | which one of the following is least related to the other three | "ohio idea" | |
| 704747293 | one weapon that was used to put boos tweed, leader of New York City's infamous Tweed Ring, in jail was | the cartoons of the political satirist Thomas Nast | |
| 704747294 | The Credit Mobilier scandal involved | railroad construction kickbacks | |
| 704747295 | in an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings, the owners of Credit Mobilizer | distributed shares of the company's valuable stock to key congressmen | |
| 704747296 | President ulysses s. grant was reelected in 1872 because | his opponents chose a poor candidate for the presidency | |
| 704747297 | one cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was | the construction of more factories than existing markets would bear | |
| 704747298 | as a solution to the panic or depression of 1873, debtors suggested | inflationary policies | |
| 704747299 | one result of republican "hard money" policies was | the formation of the greenback labor party | |
| 704747300 | those who enjoyed a successful political career in the post-civil war decades were usually | party loyalists | |
| 704747301 | during the gilded age, the democrats and the republicans | had few significant economic differences | |
| 704747302 | the presidential election of the 1870s and 1880s | aroused great interest among voters | |
| 704747303 | one reason for the extremely high voter turnouts and partisan feror of the gilded age was | sharp ethnic and cultural differences in the membership of the two parties | |
| 704747304 | during the gilded age, the lifeblood of both the democratic and the republican parties was | political patronage | |
| 704747305 | "spoilsmen" was the label attached to those who | expected government jobs from their party's elected officeholders | |
| 704747306 | the major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on | the two sets of election returns submitted by florida, south carolina, and louisiana | |
| 704747307 | the compromise of 1877 resulted in | the withdrawal of federal troops from the south | |
| 704747308 | the sequence of presidential terms of the "forgettable presidents" of the gilded age (including cleveland's two nonconsecutive terms) | Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland | |
| 704747309 | in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the supreme court ruled that | "seperate but equal" facilities were constitutional | |
| 704747310 | at the end of reconstruction, southern whites disenfranchised african americans with | all of the above | |
| 704747311 | the leagl codes that established the system of segregation were | called jim crow laws | |
| 704747312 | the presidency of rutherford b. hayes opened with | scenes of class warfare | |
| 704747313 | the railroad of 1877started when | the four largest railroads cut salaries by ten percent | |
| 704747314 | labor unrest during the hayes administration stemmed from | long years of depression and deflation | |
| 704747315 | labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in | the use of federal troops during strikes | |
| 704747316 | in the wake of anti-chinese violation in california, the united states congress | passed a law prohibiting the immigration of chinese laborers to america | |
| 704747317 | which of the following internal developments in china resulted in chinese immigration to the united states? | all of the above | |
| 704747318 | one of the main reasons that the chinese came to the united states was to | dig for gold | |
| 704747319 | the chinese word tong means | meeting hall | |
| 704747320 | abraham lincoln was the first president to be assassinated while in office; the seond was | james garfield | |
| 704747321 | president james a. garfield was assassinated | by a deranged, disappointed office seeker | |
| 704747322 | the pendleton act required appointees to public office to | take a competitive examination | |
| 704747323 | with the passage of the pendleton act, politicins now sought money from | big corporations | |
| 704747324 | the 1884 election contest between james g. blaine and grover cleveland was noted for | its personal attacks on the two candidates | |
| 704747325 | which one of the following gilded age president had a different party affiliation from the other four? | Grover Cleveland | |
| 704747326 | when he was president, grover cleveland's hands-off approach to government gained the support of | businesspeople | |
| 704747327 | on the issue of the tariff, president grover cleveland, | advocated a lower rate | |
| 704747328 | the major campaign issue of the 1888 presidential election was | tariff policy | |
| 704747329 | in the later decades of the nineteenth century, it was generally true that the locus of political power was | congress | |
| 704747330 | the "billion-dollar congress" quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by | expanding pensions for civil war veterans | |
| 704747331 | which of the following was not among the platform planks adopted by the populist party in their convention of 1892? | government guarantess of "parity prices" for farmers | |
| 704747332 | the four states completely carried by the populists in the election of 1892 were | Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vertmont | |
| 704747333 | The early populist campaign to create a coalition of white and black farmers ended in | a racist backlash that eliminated black voting in the south | |
| 704747334 | the political developments of the 1890s were largely shaped by | the most severe and extended economic depression up to that time | |
| 704747335 | economic unrest and the respeal of the sherman silver purchase act led to the rise of the pro-silver leader | william jennings bryan | |
| 704747336 | president grover cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his action of | borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate | |
| 704747337 | When private railroad promoters asked the united states government for subsudues to build their railroads, they gave all of the following reasons for their request except that it was | the railroads would repay the subsidies by paying higher taxes | |
| 704747338 | during the gilded age, most of the tailroad barons | built their railroads with government assistance | |
| 704747339 | the national government helped to finance transcontinental railroad construction in the late nineteenth century by providing railroad corporations with | land grants | |
| 704747340 | the only transcontinental railroad built without government aid was the | great northern | |
| 704747341 | one by-product of the development of the railroads was | the movement of people to cities | |
| 704747342 | the greatest single factor helping to spur the amazing industrialization of the post-civil war years was | the railroad network | |
| 704747343 | the united states changed to standard time zones when | the major rail lines decreed common fixed times so that they could keep schedules and avoid wrecks | |
| 704747344 | agreements between railroad corporations to divide the business in a given area and share the profts were called | pools | |
| 704747345 | early railroad owners formed "pools" in order to | avoid competition by dividing business in a particular area | |
| 704747346 | Efforts to regulate the monopolizing practices of railroad corporations first came in the form of action by | state legislatures | |
| 704747347 | the first federal regulatory agency designed to protect the public interest from business combinations was the | interstate commerce commission | |
| 704747348 | one of the most significant aspects of the interstate commerce act was that it | represented the first large-scale attempt by the federal government to regulate business | |
| 704747349 | after the civil war, the plentiful supply of unskilled labor in the united states | helped to build the nation into an industrial giant | |
| 704747350 | one of the methods by which post-civil war busines leaders increased their profits was | increased competition | |
| 704747351 | the steel industry owed much to the inventive genius of | henry bessemer | |
| 704747352 | J.P. Morgan undermined competition by placing officers of his bank on the boards of upposedly independent companies that he wanted to control. This method was known as an | interlocking dictorate | |
| 704747353 | Americas first billion-dollar corporation was | united states steel | |
| 704747354 | the first major product of the oil industry was | kerosene | |
| 704747355 | the oil industry became a huge business | with the invention of the internal combustion engine | |
| 704747356 | John D. Rockefeller used all of the following tactics to achieve his domination of the oil industry except | using federal agents to break his competitors | |
| 704747357 | the "gospel of wealth," which associated godliness with riches, | held that the wealthy should display moral responsibility for their god-given money | |
| 704747358 | to help corporations, the courts ingeniously interpreted the fourteenth amendment, which was designed to protect the rights of ex-slaves, so as to | avoid corporate regulation by the states | |
| 704747359 | the________ amendment was especially helpful to giant corporations when defending themdelves against regulation by state governments | fourteenth | |
| 704747360 | the sherman anti-trust act was at first primarily used to curb the power of | labor unions | |
| 704747361 | during the age of industrialization, the south | remained overwhelmingly rural and agricultural | |
| 704747362 | the south's major attraction for potential investors was | cheap labor | |
| 704747363 | in the late nineteenth century, tax benefits and cheap, nonunion labor especially attracted__________ manufacturing to the "new south" | textile | |
| 704747364 | Many southerners saw employment in the textile mills as | the only steady jobs and wages available | |
| 704747365 | one of the greatest changes that industrialization brought about in the lives of workers was | the need for them to adjust their lives to the time clock | |
| 704747366 | the group most effected by the new industrial age was | women | |
| 704747367 | despite generally rising wages in the late nineteenth century, industrial workers extremely vulnerable to all of the following except | new educational requirements for jobs | |
| 704747368 | the image of the "Gibson Girl" represented | a romantic ideal of the independent and athletic "new women" | |
| 704747369 | most women workers of the 1890s worked for | economic necessity | |
| 704747370 | which one of the following is least like the other three | closed shop | |
| 704747371 | generally, the supreme court in the late nineteenth century interpreted the constitution in such a way as to favor | corporations | |
| 704747372 | in its efforts on behalf of workers, the national labor union won | an eight-hour day for government workers | |
| 704747373 | one group barred from membership in the knights of labor was | chinese | |
| 704747374 | the knights of labor believed that conflict between capital and labor would disappear when | labor would own and operate businesses and industries | |
| 704747375 | the knights of labor believed that republican traditions and institutions could be perserved from corrupt monopolies | by strengthening the economic and political independence of the workers | |
| 704747376 | one of the major reasons the knights of labor failed was its | lack of class consciousness | |
| 704747377 | what most effective and most enduring labor union of the post-civil war period was the | american federation of labor | |
| 704747378 | by 1900, american attitudes toward labor began to change as the public came to recognize the right of workers to bargain collectively and strike. nevertheless, | the vast majority of employers continued to fight organized labor | |
| 704747379 | by 1900, organized labor in america | had begun to develop a more positive image with the public | |
| 704747380 | the people who found fault with the "captains of industry" mostly argued that these men | built their corporate wealth and power by exploiting workers | |
| 704747381 | even historians critical of the captains of industry and capitalism generally concede that class-based protest has never been a powerful force in the united states because | america has greater social mobility than europe has. | |
| 704747382 | all of the following were important factors in post-civil war industrial expansion except | immigration restrictions |
